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Poirieria (Panamurex) lychnia

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Paziella (Dallimurex) lychnia was named by Gardner (1947). Its type specimen is USNM 371853, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 2213 - Baileys Ferry, which is in a Burdigalian marine marl/sandstone in the Chipola Formation of Florida.

It was recombined as Poirieria (Panamurex) lychnia by Vokes (1970).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. primigena, P. cretacea

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1947Paziella (Dallimurex) lychnia Gardner p. 523 figs. pl. 53, figs. 12, 13
1959Paziella (Dallimurex) lychnia Woodring p. 217
1970Poirieria (Panamurex) lychnia Vokes p. 35

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
RankNameAuthor
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyMuricinaeda Costa 1776
genusPoirieriaJousseaume 1880
subgenusPanamurex()
specieslychnia(Gardner 1947)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
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